An inquiry about the death of five -year -old Yusuf Nazir opens

An inquiry has killed a five -year -old boy who was sent home from A&E.

Yusuf Mahmood Nazir died on 23 November 2022 at Sheffield Children Hospital, 8 days later he was seen at Roderham Hospital and sent home with antibiotics.

After NHS England published a second report in his death last month, his family called for an inquiry, saying that this was the “only way” to get an answer about what happened.

After interrogation at the Sheffield Medico-Legal Center, Yusuf’s uncle, Zaheer Ahmed said: “This is a difficult fight to reach here, but we are getting closer to the truth. We just want to know how our little child is dead, and who is responsible.”

The inquiry was opened on Thursday – what will be the eight birthday of the boy after two days.

Mr. Ahmed said that Joseph, who lived with his parents in Roderham, was a “jolly little boy, a very happy little child”, which was “full of life and energy”.

“He would be eight years old [this week]But unfortunately these failures have taken him very quickly.

Tanka Roden, a senior coroner of Sheffield, expressed condolences to the family and on January 30 the next year postponed the inquiry for hearing a case management.

Full inquiry will later be compared to this, which Mr. Ahmed said that he had no objection “until everything is seen properly”.

“We don’t want it to be done early. We do not want any opportunity to miss.”

Joseph, who was asthma, was taken into a GP with a sore throat and was felt unwell on 15 November and antibiotics were prescribed by an advanced nurse businessman.

After that evening, his parents took him to Roderham Hospital immediately and emergency care center, where he was seen after waiting for six hours.

Mr. Ahmed has always said that he has “no beds and not enough doctors” in the emergency department “, and that Yusuf should be admitted and intravenous antibiotic drugs in Roderham.

He was discharged with a diagnosis of severe tonsillitis and an extended prescription of antibiotics.

Two days later, Joseph was further given antibiotics by his GP for a possible chest infection, but his family was so worried that he called the ambulance and insisted that he was taken to Sheffield Children Hospital instead of Roderham.

Joseph was admitted to the intensive care unit on 21 November, but developed multi-failure and several cardiac arrests.

Yusuf’s mother, Sonia Ahmed, said at a press conference in July that his son was taken from the family in the “most frightening way”.

“Every night when I close my eyes, I listen to Joseph’s helpless voice in my ears, ‘Mummy, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I can’t really do it’, she said.

The primary discovery of the NHS report published in July said, “Parents’ concerns, especially mother’s instinct that her child was unwell, was not addressed in repeated services”.

A former founder review will be held before the hearing on 30 January, the date of which will not be decided yet.